TCP Large Windows (tcplw)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of that in effect at the time of the 38th IETF Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. It may now be out-of-date.

Chair(s): 

David Borman <dab@bsdi.com>

Transport Area Director(s): 

Allison Mankin <mankin@isi.edu>
Allyn Romanow <allyn@eng.sun.com>

Mailing Lists: 

General Discussion:tcplw@bsdi.com
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Archive:

Description of Working Group: 

The TCP Large Windows Working Group is chartered to produce a specification for the use of TCP on high-delay, high-bandwidth paths. To this end, this working group recommended ``TCP extensions for long-delay paths'' (RFC 1072), and ``TCP Extension for High-Speed Paths'' (RFC 1185) be published jointly as a Proposed Standard. Deficiencies in the technical details of the documents were identified by the End-to-End Research Group of the IRTF. Rather than progress the standard with known deficiencies, the IESG tasked the End-to-End Research Group to fix and merge these two documents into a single protocol specification document. This review was done on the e2e-interest@isi.edu mailing list. 

The TCP Large Windows Working Group is being resurrected for a one time meeting, to review and if appropriate, approve this new document.

Goals and Milestones:

Done 

Review the TCP Extended Window Size proposal from the IRSG End to End Research Group and if acceptable, recommend it for Standards status.

Internet-Drafts: 

· TCP Extensions for High Performance

Request For Comments:

RFC 

Status 

Title

RFC1323 

PS 

TCP Extensions for High Performance

RFC2018 

PS 

TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options

Current Meeting Report

The Working Group did not meet. 

Slides

None Received 

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